How colleges rank in social media

As the alma mater of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard is naturally at the top of the social media list, as TopCollegesOnline.org found after tallying up the number of followers, likes, views, and scores for each school on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and Klout.

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Facebook

Harvard has 1,930,730 likes on Facebook, the brainchild of alum Mark Zuckerberg (left).

That’s about 281 times the amount of students currently enrolled, and the most likes of any college page as of September 2012. Second-ranked LSU has a mere 711,605 likes.
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Harvard fell to third place behind Stanford and MIT on Google’s social media platform.

MIT is less than 2,000 followers behind Standford, while Harvard is another 600 behind MIT with 8,249 followers.
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Pinterest

Boston schools were totally shut out on Pinterest, bested by Drake University, LSU, and top ranked Texas A&M, which led the pack with 3,255 followers.
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YouTube

MIT is again in second place behind Stanford with 41,676,721 views of Youtube videos produced by it’s official Youtube channel. Harvard is fifth with 11.202,301 views.

YouTube engineer Andy Berkheimer at the YouTube head office in San Bruno, California.
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Klout

Thanks to its popularity on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, Harvard also garners the top score on Klout, which analyzes how people interact on social media sites. Harvard’s score is 93.5, while eighth-ranked Boston College has a score of 84.9.

Mark Zuckerberg , right, and Dustin Moscovitz, co-founder of Facebook,left, had their photo taken at Harvard Yard in 2004.
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